StackOverflow For Any Topic

Posted by kdawson on Sunday September 27, 2009 @10:35AM from the let-a-thousand-faqs-bloom dept.

RobinH writes "StackOverflow, the successful question-and-answer website for programmers, is now over a year old and its top user has just passed 100,000 reputation points. Now one of the creators of StackOverflow, Joel Spolsky, and his company Fog Creek, are developing a software-as-a-service form of the StackOverflow engine called StackExchange to support any topic you want. The software is currently in private beta, but the first few beta sites have surfaced. Topics include business travel, the home, parenthood, the environment, finance, and iPhone game development."

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Re:Too bad StackOverflow sucks. by Tony+Hoyle · 2009-09-27 11:32 · Score: 4, Interesting

That'll be why it never comes up on searches.
90% of the time if I have to hit google for answers it's because something is giving a stupid error message (google for the message text) or error code (google for the number.. that can be fun..). Keywords won't cut it, because they assume I know what the problem is already (and if I knew that I'd hit the documentation and work it out myself).
Re:The average BB experience is TERRIBLE by Achromatic1978 · 2009-09-27 12:16 · Score: 3, Interesting

Check out Vanilla for a better BB experience: http://vanillaforums.org/discussions